Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage::iMessage serves should be regulated under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google and a group of major European telcos has told the European Commission.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    They should open up RCS first before making demands of Apple.

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      RCS is an open standard, isn’t it? Are you referring to the E2E encryption that Google added to Android?

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          Eh? GSMA created RCS and Google simply setup their own servers to run it. So I guess you could argue that Google’s RCS network is proprietary, but RCS itself is most definitely not. There’s technical documentation freely available for implementing your own RCS client/server, if you care to do so.

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            Well didn’t they initially want carriers implementing RCS with interoperability between each other to sunset sms? But that didn’t quite pan out. IIRC there was a time when Verizon had a limited number of devices that supported RCS but only on their network, similar story with Bell in Canada. Hell at one point even Samsung had RCS but only with other Samsung phones. Fragmentation was rampant so Google took matters into their own hands. Not saying I’m happy Googles at the helm but they didn’t start out with that intention.

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              Yeah it’s unfortunate we weren’t able to get RCS everywhere, as an improvement over sms. I imagine the encryption to be a sticking point preventing ubiquity

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      1 year ago

      Apple users have no issues receiving my images.

      They can’t send me anything.

      Apple is the one that needs to cut the shit first.